Right as I start to get really excited about Clover Studios and their new incarnation, Platinum Games, this announcement turns up. Four games! Here's my take:

Bayonetta: Hey, we're innovating on the Devil May Cry formula! Finally! I love all three Devil May Cry games, a lot, but hopefully this will finally make my dream of Viewtiful Joe-style time control combined with Devil May Cry action a reality. Interestingly enough, this is exactly the team that could do it and do it right.

Infinite Line: I never played Steel Battalion and we really have no info on this other than that it's a DS RPG, but there are no pieces of this puzzle so far that do not sex me up.

MadWorld: I love Nintendo consoles because I don't think videos games need to be violent to be fun, significant, or even awesome. That said, I like violent video games and think Nintendo needs more of them. Maybe one of these days I'll gush about No More Heroes, but for now it's enough to say that it tickled me in very private, very splendid ways. It was like an easygoing GOD HAND on the Wii, with absolutely sociopathic amounts of blood and arbitrary violence. MadWorld looks like it's going even further, as instead of making all the blood grey or whatever in Japan they are simply not going to release it there at all. This game will be indulgent, offensive, bloody, and on a Nintendo console. Make it happen.

Shinji Mikami: Yeah, he's working on a game. There are rumors that Suda 51 (the guy who made Killer 7 and No More Heroes) is involved. That's all we know, but I'm going to go ahead and pretend they're making GOD FOOT together.